Tim Donohue is a professor of Bacteriology who has been a faculty member at UW-Madison for over twenty years. During this time his research program has focused on solar energy utilization by photosynthetic bacteria, studying the process and control of photosynthesis, and how cells divert the energy captured from sunlight into different pathways. Donohue has been a member of various federal research panels, has served on several editorial boards and advisory committees in microbiology, and has helped author reports for the Department of Energy on solar energy generation and the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels. He has experience in leading cross-disciplinary research programs like the NIGMS Biotechnology Training Program. More recently he has been named head of the new DOE-funded Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison.

Academy Evenings Presentation:

Did you miss Tim Donohue's March 16, 2010, presentation What's Driving My Car? 2050 Biofuels and Other Sustainable Energy Sources? You can watch it online or purchase the DVD from our Wisconsin Academy store.

Suggested Reading:

"Fuel for Thought," Wisconsin People & Ideas, 2009

"UW-Madison Sequencing Effort To Chart Ants And Their Ecosystem," by Margaret Broeren for UW-Madison CALS website.

For Further Investigation:

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center website